MHF 2009-10 Video Blogs
During the 2009-10 Expedition I shot a series of vlogs capturing some of the main events of the season – admixed with some light polar humour. The vlog was commissioned and sponsored by Telstra...
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Q&A – Peter Morse, computer visualisation
Dr. Peter Morse speaks to Pauline Askin about his role as visualisation specialist on the Mawson’s Huts Foundation Expedition 2009/10. Peter runs a visualisation consultancy in Hobart, Tasmania – working upon...
Fulldome & Virtual Cameras in Mawson’s Huts
People often find screen resolution difficult to understand. I recall my former life as a university lecturer seeing the blank stares of arts students as they tried to grapple with something vaguely mathematical in nature...
Frank Hurley’s Darkroom and Interesting Poisons in Early C20th Photography
Here is an example of a Paget Screen (the underpinning colour grid that enabled the reproduction of colour in the Paget Process): Here we see typically soft-focus gentle colour produced in this Paget Process...
Exciting Times with the Hurley Dolly
Yesterday was the first installation and test of the Hurley Dolley – part of our motion control system for fulldome shooting in Mawson’s Huts. Track systems for cameras and motion control can cost hundreds...
Mawson’s Huts 2009-2010 Expedition
The Mawson’s Huts Foundation 2009-2010 Expedition will depart Tasmania on December 2nd 2009 – returning around January 28th- Feb 1st, 2010. I am the official photographer, videographer and film-maker, undertaking both documentary work and...
Ocean (2009)
Ocean (2009) from Peter Morse on Vimeo. A visualisation of the global ocean derived from the GEBCO dataset. Rendered at 4k Fulldome resolution. This is an excerpt from ongoing work – there is so...
Bodies in Time: A Sociosemiotics of Funerary Monuments and Sculpture
This is the author resource for my PhD thesis (1994): ‘Bodies in Time: A Sociosemiotics of Funerary Monuments and Sculpture’. The full PDF is available at https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50582/ or http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27096.21766 Degree Doctor of Philosophy, School...
Visualising GEBCO: A new way of seeing the global oceans (2009)
A short overview of work-in-progress visualising the GEBCO dataset (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) The visualisation involved developing a derived dataset from GEBCO in reference to WGS’84, where we have effectively ‘removed’ the...
Home of the Blizzard
Updated version 2019 here. Note: Anaglyphic stereo requires red-blue 3D glasses to view. NB. For the simple reason that red=right is a good mnemonic, I authored this in anaglyphic with red on the right,...
Benthos: Visualising the Global Ocean
“Benthos” is a project to explore and generate fulldome visualisations of volumetric and multidimensional earth & ocean science datasets.
Frozen in Time
A short preview version of the fulldome (planetarium) movie “Frozen in Time” commissioned by Horizon – The Planetarium
Life Under The Ice – Understanding the Ice Oceans
CAML / ArcOD Video: Promotional science video and data visualisation
Synapse :: Benthos
1.0 Introduction: “Benthos” is a project to explore and generate fulldome visualisations of volumetric and multidimensional datasets derived from Australian Antarctic Division, CSIRO and international oceanographic and marine science programmes. This page details some...
LadyBug Adventures at Mawson’s Hut
Yesterday (Thurs 3rd) I manhauled a sled over to the Main Hut (truly in the manner of the early explorers…) carrying the LadyBug camera, a laptop, several other digital cameras, survival kit and so...
Summer Solstice Party & Name-Our-Rap-Group Competition!!!
To celebrate the summer solstice – that is, the longest day and shortest night (not that it makes any difference here as the sun never sets) – we all got dressed up in our best summer...
Jubilee Base Extensions!
Our intrepid builder-architects, Pete McCabe and Jon Tucker, have wrestled with the Beast (the Cobra Rock Drill) and, with amazing rapidity, built the infrastructure for the new Base base – or the Base base...
“Spirit of Enderby” visits Mawson’s Huts
Today we had a delightful visit from the Spirit of Enderby – a ship chartered by the New Zealand company Heritage Expeditions, carrying some 60 passengers and crew, who met 8 keen-for-a-shower Mawson’s Huts...